The Racing Courier
Squad2 Aug 2027
Axel Oyola breaks a bone — 40 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Aug 2027
Facundo Taborda hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A career in one shirt: Axel Oyola
10 seasons and 134 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Match31 Jul 2027
5 matches without a win for Racing
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Racing are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Up for the corner, and Luciano Viano delivers — 7.82
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Luciano Viano scored, was marked 7.82, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Lautaro Zamora says Racing went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Matías Machado beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Racing
Ignacio Valsangiácomo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market2 Aug 2027
One of our own: Juan Carlos Vega joins the Racing first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Carlos Vega is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Leonardo Castro steps up from the Racing academy
- Market Racing promote Alejandro Suárez from within
- Squad Racing lose Valentín Dutruel